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It Can't Happen Here

By Sinclair Lewis
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By Sinclair Lewis
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History might not repeat itself, but it absolutely rhymes — this prescient and chilling story is as timely now as it was when first published 90 years ago. A populist president rises to power promising to return the country to its former greatness… before descending into tyranny and terrorism.

The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is an alarming, eerily timeless work. The Chicago Tribune descibed the book as "written at a white heat," for Lewis was outraged as he created it, tormented by Hitler's aggression, the murderous events in Franco's Spain, and nationalism rising in America. This book remains a warning about the fragility of democarcy, juxtaposing hilarious satires with a blow-by-blow ...

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